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20137. Winter Scene of Engineering Building and Library Parking Lot, West Virginia University

IDNO:
020139
Title:
Winter Scene of Engineering Building and Library Parking Lot, West Virginia University
Date:
1958
'Left to right: Cafeteria, Health Center, Reynolds Hall, Administration (old library).'

20138. Buildings on University Avenue, West Virginia University

IDNO:
020140
Title:
Buildings on University Avenue, West Virginia University
Date:
1965
Description:
'Left to right: Cafeteria, Health Center, Reynolds Hall, Administration (old library).'
'Man in what appears to be a [breathing apparatus] crawling in what appears to be the basement of a building.'

20139. Testing Breathing Apparatus, West Virginia University

IDNO:
020141
Title:
Testing Breathing Apparatus, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1913
Description:
'Man in what appears to be a [breathing apparatus] crawling in what appears to be the basement of a building.'

20140. Grounds and Some of the Buildings, West Virginia University

IDNO:
020142
Title:
Grounds and Some of the Buildings, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1896

20141. Woodburn Circle, West Virginia University

IDNO:
020143
Title:
Woodburn Circle, West Virginia University
'New Library, West Virginia University, In Process of Construction; Cost of Building $105,000'

20142. Construction of New Library, Stewart Hall, West Virginia University

IDNO:
020144
Title:
Construction of New Library, Stewart Hall, West Virginia University
Description:
'New Library, West Virginia University, In Process of Construction; Cost of Building $105,000'
Mechanical Hall was located on this site before it burned down. The temporary Engineering building, Chemistry building, and part of the Wise Library are also visible.

20143. Students Crossing the Cleared Site of the Mountainlair Parking Lot, West Virginia University

IDNO:
020145
Title:
Students Crossing the Cleared Site of the Mountainlair Parking Lot, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1960-1965
Description:
Mechanical Hall was located on this site before it burned down. The temporary Engineering building, Chemistry building, and part of the Wise Library are also visible.

20144. Nurses Heater and Lawson, Hopemont Sanitarium, Preston County, W. Va.

IDNO:
020146
Title:
Nurses Heater and Lawson, Hopemont Sanitarium, Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1927
'This is me right after I had my hair cut. It certainly is comfrotable.' Biographical information on Hester Harr obtained from her niece, Debra Harr. Hester Harr was a patient at Hopemont Hospital for approximately 10 years. After contracting tuberculosis, she was admitted in the Spring of 1926 and discharged 1936. She was born January 10,1906 in Buena, W. Va. near Canaan Valley, one of five children (the third and last daughter) of John R. and DeLarie Harr. Hester graduated from Petersburg High School in 1925. She entered Shepherd College in the fall of that year. In the spring of 1926, she transferred to West Virginia University. Her brother, Guy Harr, born 1909, was also a student at WVU at the same time. He also contracted tuberculosis and entered the Hopemont Sanitarium. He died at Hopemont in 1934. After leaving Hopemont, Hester Harr married Harold Yokum of Keyser on December 31, 1938. They made their home in Ridgeley, W. Va. near Short Gap, W. Va. (on Rt. 28 South of Cumberland). They had no children. Harold Yokum died in 1953. Hester Harr died in 1987 of complications of pneumonia. She is buried in the Maple River Cemetery in Petersburg, W. Va

20145. Hester Luetta Harr at Hopemont Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Preston County, W. Va.

IDNO:
020147
Title:
Hester Luetta Harr at Hopemont Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Preston County, W. Va.
Description:
'This is me right after I had my hair cut. It certainly is comfrotable.' Biographical information on Hester Harr obtained from her niece, Debra Harr. Hester Harr was a patient at Hopemont Hospital for approximately 10 years. After contracting tuberculosis, she was admitted in the Spring of 1926 and discharged 1936. She was born January 10,1906 in Buena, W. Va. near Canaan Valley, one of five children (the third and last daughter) of John R. and DeLarie Harr. Hester graduated from Petersburg High School in 1925. She entered Shepherd College in the fall of that year. In the spring of 1926, she transferred to West Virginia University. Her brother, Guy Harr, born 1909, was also a student at WVU at the same time. He also contracted tuberculosis and entered the Hopemont Sanitarium. He died at Hopemont in 1934. After leaving Hopemont, Hester Harr married Harold Yokum of Keyser on December 31, 1938. They made their home in Ridgeley, W. Va. near Short Gap, W. Va. (on Rt. 28 South of Cumberland). They had no children. Harold Yokum died in 1953. Hester Harr died in 1987 of complications of pneumonia. She is buried in the Maple River Cemetery in Petersburg, W. Va
'Us.' Biographical information on Hester Harr obtained from her niece, Debra Harr. Hester Harr was a patient at Hopemont Hospital for approximately 10 years. After contracting tuberculosis, she was admitted in the Spring of 1926 and discharged 1936. She was born January 10,1906 in Buena, W. Va. near Canaan Valley, one of five children (the third and last daughter) of John R. and DeLarie Harr. Hester graduated from Petersburg High School in 1925. She entered Shepherd College in the fall of that year. In the spring of 1926, she transferred to West Virginia University. Her brother, Guy Harr, born 1909, was also a student at WVU at the same time. He also contracted tuberculosis and entered the Hopemont Sanitarium. He died at Hopemont in 1934. After leaving Hopemont, Hester Harr married Harold Yokum of Keyser on December 31, 1938. They made their home in Ridgeley, W. Va. near Short Gap, W. Va. (on Rt. 28 South of Cumberland). They had no children. Harold Yokum died in 1953. Hester Harr died in 1987 of complications of pneumonia. She is buried in the Maple River Cemetery in Petersburg, W. Va

20146. Hester Luetta Harr at Hopemont Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Preston County, W. Va.

IDNO:
020148
Title:
Hester Luetta Harr at Hopemont Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
1927/08/15
Description:
'Us.' Biographical information on Hester Harr obtained from her niece, Debra Harr. Hester Harr was a patient at Hopemont Hospital for approximately 10 years. After contracting tuberculosis, she was admitted in the Spring of 1926 and discharged 1936. She was born January 10,1906 in Buena, W. Va. near Canaan Valley, one of five children (the third and last daughter) of John R. and DeLarie Harr. Hester graduated from Petersburg High School in 1925. She entered Shepherd College in the fall of that year. In the spring of 1926, she transferred to West Virginia University. Her brother, Guy Harr, born 1909, was also a student at WVU at the same time. He also contracted tuberculosis and entered the Hopemont Sanitarium. He died at Hopemont in 1934. After leaving Hopemont, Hester Harr married Harold Yokum of Keyser on December 31, 1938. They made their home in Ridgeley, W. Va. near Short Gap, W. Va. (on Rt. 28 South of Cumberland). They had no children. Harold Yokum died in 1953. Hester Harr died in 1987 of complications of pneumonia. She is buried in the Maple River Cemetery in Petersburg, W. Va

20147. Jim a Patient at Hopemont Hospital, Preston County, W. Va.

IDNO:
020149
Title:
Jim a Patient at Hopemont Hospital, Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
1927/06/15

20148. Red, Patient at Hopemont Hospital, Preston County, W. Va.

IDNO:
020150
Title:
Red, Patient at Hopemont Hospital, Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
1927/08/05